Transaction in Own Shares

06 December 2018, 17:46

Source - RNS

RNS Number : 7421J

Rio Tinto PLC

06 December 2018

6th December 2018

Rio Tinto plc - Transaction in own shares

Rio Tinto plc (the "Company") today announces that on 6th December 2018 it purchased the following number of ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company (the "Ordinary Shares") on the London Stock Exchange from Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch. These shares will be cancelled.

Ordinary Shares

Date of Purchase

6th December 2018

Number of ordinary shares purchased

335,650

Average price paid (GBp)

3532.1727

Highest price paid

3604.0000

Lowest price paid

3492.5000

These share purchases form part of the Company's existing share buy-back programme which is expected to be completed over the period from 27 December 2017 to 31 December 2018, details of which were announced on 21 September 2017.

In respect of this programme, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch will make trading decisions in relation to the Company's Ordinary Shares repurchased under the buy-back programme independently of, and uninfluenced by, the Company for the period from 15 October 2018 to 31 December 2018.

Any such acquisitions will be effected within certain pre-set parameters, and in accordance with the Company's general authority to repurchase Ordinary Shares, Chapter 12 of the Listing Rules and the provisions of the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU dealing with buy-back programmes.

Following the cancellation of the Ordinary Shares repurchased, the Company will have 1,291,420,361 Ordinary Shares in issue. To the extent that further Ordinary Shares are repurchased under the programme, these will also be cancelled.

In accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014/EU, a full breakdown of the individual trades is detailed below: